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On Arriving at Snake River They Commenced at Once to Build a Fort quarterlyoverland of the oregon-california trails association journalvolume 34 · number 1 · spring 2016 On arriving at Snake river they commenced at once to build a fort. quarterlyoverland of the oregon-california trails association journalvolume 34 · number 1 · spring 2016 John Winner President The Oregon-California Trails Association Pat Traffas Vice President Marvin Burke Treasurer P.O. Box 1019 · Independence, mo 64051 Sandra Wiechert Secretary www.octa-trails.org · (816) 252-2276 · [email protected] Jere Krakow Preservation Officer John Krizek Past President preserving the trails F. Travis Boley Association Manager octa’s membership and volunteer leadership seek to preserve our heritage. Our Kathy Conway Headquarters Manager accomplishments include: Marlene Smith-Baranzini · Purchasing Nebraska’s “California Hill,” with ruts cut by emigrant wagons as they climbed Overland Journal Editor from the South Platte River. Ariane C. Smith Design & production · Protecting emigrant graves. · Initiating legislation designating the California and Santa Fe trails as National Historic trails. board of directors Cecilia Bell · Persuading government and industry to relocate roads and pipe lines to preserve miles of Don Hartley pristine ruts. Duane Iles Jere Krakow conventions and field trips Our annual convention is held in a different location with proximity to a historical area each Matt Mallinson Dick Nelson August. Convention activities include tours and treks, papers and presentations, meals and Vern Osborne socials, and a display room with book dealers, publishers, and other materials. Loren Pospisil Local chapters also plan treks and activities throughout the year. Bill Symms publications Overland Journal—Issued four times each year, O.J. contains new research and publications committee re-examinations of topics pertaining to the history of the American West, especially the William Hill, Chair Camille Bradford development and use of the trails. Robert A. Clark News from the Plains—Also issued quarterly, News contains updates about members and the Susan Badger Doyle organization, convention reports, legislative action, genealogy, trail preservation, and special Stanley Paher activities. Jesse Petersen Special Publications—Periodic book publications in the Emigrant Trails Historical Studies Series (numbered documentary editions) and the Special Publications Series (trail studies ex officio members monographs). Travis Boley Kathy Conway research and education Bill Martin · Developing instructional materials to help students understand the western migration. Ariane C. Smith · Marking the trails and maintaining weathered or damaged markers. Marlene Smith-Baranzini · Developing a computer-based census of emigrant diaries, newspaper accounts, letters, and other documents. editorial advisory board Ruth Anderson statement of purpose David Bigler The purposes for which the Association is organized are as follows: Roger Blair 1. To initiate and coordinate activities relating to the identification, preservation, Randy Brown interpretation, and improved accessibility of extant rut segments, trail remains, graves and Donald Buck associated historic trail sites, landmarks, artifacts, and objects along the overland western Robert A. Clark historic trails, roads, routes, branches, and cutoffs of the Trans-Mississippi region. Peter H. DeLafosse 2. To prevent further deterioration of the foregoing and to take or pursue whatever measures Susan Badger Doyle necessary or advisable to cause more of the same to become accessible or more so to the Jim Hardee general public. Thomas H. Hunt 3. To implement these purposes by acquiring either alone or through or jointly with other— Larry Jones federal, state, local, or private—title to the land or lands on which any of the same is Charles W. Martin Jr. located or a preservation or other easements with regard to the same—by purchase, gift, or Robert L. Munkres otherwise—and by cooperating with or initiating, coordinating, and assisting the efforts of such others to do so. submissions and editorial contact Prospective authors should send queries or 4. To publicize and seek public exposure of the goals and activities of the Association so as to their articles to Marlene Smith-Baranzini, create popular awareness of and concern for the necessity of preserving the foregoing. Overland Journal, P.O. Box 265, Tracy, ca 5. To facilitate research projects about the aforesaid and to publish a journal as a forum for 95378 (email: [email protected]). Manu- scholarly articles adding to the sum of knowledge about the same. scripts should be typed, double-spaced, It shall be the further purpose of the Association to be exclusively charitable and educational without embedded illustrations, and with within the meaning of Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. endnotes numbered consecutively. When possible, include suggestions for illustra- Copyright © 2016 by the Oregon-California Trails Association. issn 0738-1093. Overland Journal tions. Inquiries concerning suitable topics is published quarterly by the Oregon-California Trails Association, P.O. Box 1019, Independence, and author guidelines are welcome and mo 64051-0519. Members receive each Overland Journal issue as part of their membership should be addressed to the editor. Neither privileges. Contents are protected by copyright and may not be reproduced without permission. the editor nor the Association is responsible The Association disclaims responsibility for statements of facts or opinions expressed in signed for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs, contributions to the Overland Journal. Articles are abstracted and indexed in Historical Abstracts, artwork, or other material sent for editorial America: History and Life, and online in Uncover. consideration. spring 2016 contentsvolume 34 · number 1 6 41 37 2 Behne by John Briggs 5 Contributors 6 Building Fort Hall A Story Told by Many People By Jerry Eichhorst 22 20 Suggested Convention Reading by Jerry Eichhorst 22 Speech at Old Fort Hall, Idaho by Ezra Meeker 25 25 Diaries across Idaho Curiosities on the Oregon Trail in Southeast Idaho 41 Looking West By Jerry Eichhorst Mapping and Trail Inventory Projects 37 Reviews from the Trail By David J. Welch Confessions of a Revisionist Historian: David L. Bigler on 44 Letters to the Editor the Mormons and the West · on the cover A Way across the Mountains: Thomas Moran (1837–1926), Great Falls of Joseph Walker’s 1833 Trans- Snake River, Idaho Territory, 1876 (detail), Sierra Passage and the Myth of chromolithograph on paper, 8⅜ × 12½ Yosemite’s Discovery · John A. in. L. Prang & Co, and Thomas Moran. “Snowshoe” Thompson, Pioneer retrieved from the library of Mail Carrier of the Sierra congress, https://www.loc.gov /item/95502111. (accessed march 14, 2016.) public domain. from Fort Hall in Eastern Idaho and from the Idaho Chapter. * Welcome to OCTA’s Thirty-Fourth Annual Behne Convention: “Cultures and Changes.” *‘Hello’ in Shoshoni. Built in Pocatello, Idaho, in 1963, this Fort Hall replica replaced the original Fort Hall Trading Post, which sat close to the Snake River and was destroyed by floods. The replica was built using the fort’s original site plans and adobe-style walls. Within the fort’s walls are a number of log structures. PhotograPh by John briggs. 2 overland journal · spring 2016 from Fort Hall in Eastern Idaho and from the Idaho Chapter. Welcome to OCTA’s Thirty-Fourth Annual Convention: “Cultures and Changes.” *‘Hello’ in Shoshoni. john briggs · behne 3 n the fractured land of the Snake River, you will see the impact of major geologic shifts that you may have never seen before. ITectonic plate collisions, fault mountains, volcanic eruptions, Join us at Fort Hall in August to hear the Shoshone-Ban- and massive floods molded it. They carved the geography and nock view of the fur trappers and pioneers. Hear about the shaped especially the sinuous courses of the Snake, Bear, and trading that went on between the trappers and Native Ameri- Portneuf rivers. These rivers determined where the animals cans. Listen to the words of the pioneers from their own could go and the lava flows set where they could not, and thus diaries as they approach Fort Hall. Learn about the military the trails that animals forged were fixed. Native Americans effort to build the Lander Trail and about the discovery of followed those trails for thousands of years and in turn were South Pass. Appreciate the massive train of 338 wagons and followed by the great explorers. Fur trappers followed, and more than a thousand people that Tim Goodale guided safely then missionaries. As they recorded and mapped their routes, across his or Jeffrey’s Cutoff in 1862. Hear how the popular the pioneers were able to follow. The pioneers were followed press of the time portrayed the Native Americans. by the settlers and, soon thereafter, the military. They all used There will be preconvention and post-convention tours. the same trails and passes and in turn were followed by the The preconvention tour from the east will cross Mount Put- stage lines, roads, and railroads. nam and pass along the trail on the reservation, a journey Come to OCTA’s Idaho Convention, August 1–5, 2016, and requiring the special permission of the Shoshone-Bannock you will be able to see many of these things. Just southeast of and not available to everyone. Others will take in Hudspeth’s Fort Hall, on the Oregon-California Trail at Sheep Rock, the Cutoff, the California Trail through City of Rocks National north-flowing Bear River was dammed by lava and turned back Monument, and Goodale’s Cutoff winding its way around to the south. Instead of flowing as it once did into the Snake Craters of the Moon National Monument. River and the Pacific Ocean, it now flows into the Great Salt The five planned bus tours will take you to Pierre’s Hole; Lake basin. The south-flowing Portneuf, meanwhile, was simi- Soda Springs and Sheep Rock; Massacre Rocks and Raft River larly dammed. It too was turned back, but into the Snake. The Parting of the Ways; the ruts in Milner Recreation Area; or on animals followed these new courses.
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